Your assumptions have been right on. I actually figured out my problem just before checking back here. My productions (i think that is the proper term) for Line were not prioritized properly with the greediest first. I also had to modify my regex for Text. My grammar definition now looks like this: 
my $grammar = q{
    {my $re_type = qr /.::/ }
    Document    : Element(s)

    Element        : Header Body
        
    Header        : Element_Type Options(?)  
    
    Element_Type: /$re_type/

    Options        : '(' Arg(s) ')' 
    
    Arg            : /\b(\w+)\s*=\s*(\w+)\s*/xms
    
    Body        : '{' Line(s) '}' <commit>
    
    Line        : Element
                | Text Line
                | Text
                
    Text        :/[^\{\}]*\n/xms
                 
    
};

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My only concern now is that my current definition for Text is still not exactly right. Instead of matching everything but the braces, I would rather include everything up to, but not including the closing brace or up or a nested Q:: element. I'm sure there's a way to do this, but I'm still working on mastering regex as well. All in good time eh? Anyway, thanks for the advice Philcrow, and also everyone else that offered the helpful tips directly or inderectly related to the problem :)

In reply to Re^2: nested parsing with Parse::RecDescent by loomis53
in thread nested parsing with Parse::RecDescent by loomis53

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